[ Good for Alvin, too. The words linger with him, both the thought of using the alignment as a personal goal and the idea of proving the arehtei wrong--Red had never thought about doing either of those things, really.
Though, he wasn't completely foreign to the idea of wanting to help. And that pod... ]
...I remember that pod. [ It was something he soon remembered before everything else, that experience, and the solid sensation it formed in his stomach to recall. ] You think he's out there somewhere, still feeling that way?
[ And then he pauses. A pause that wasn't going to come, except Red's then too well aware of how he's slipping this into an actual discussion, which isn't exactly what he meant to do at all. And how Alvin was just minding his own business just a second ago.
He rolls his shoulders, hands going up to roll one around the wrist where his amulet sits, the petals safely tucked at the side of his leg, pinned. ]
I guess he is. Elios said he was the same for centuries before he came here. [ There, an answer to his own question, just so Alvin doesn't feel obligated to it. ]
very nice choices
Though, he wasn't completely foreign to the idea of wanting to help. And that pod... ]
...I remember that pod. [ It was something he soon remembered before everything else, that experience, and the solid sensation it formed in his stomach to recall. ] You think he's out there somewhere, still feeling that way?
[ And then he pauses. A pause that wasn't going to come, except Red's then too well aware of how he's slipping this into an actual discussion, which isn't exactly what he meant to do at all. And how Alvin was just minding his own business just a second ago.
He rolls his shoulders, hands going up to roll one around the wrist where his amulet sits, the petals safely tucked at the side of his leg, pinned. ]
I guess he is. Elios said he was the same for centuries before he came here. [ There, an answer to his own question, just so Alvin doesn't feel obligated to it. ]